Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 — Taxation
36 M.R.S. § 901
Remedy of owners of property taken for default of others
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When the estate of an inhabitant of a municipality, who is not a tax collector for that municipality, is levied upon and taken as mentioned in section 891 , the inhabitant may maintain an action against that municipality and recover the full value of the estate levied on, with interest at the rate of 20% from the time it was taken, with costs. The value may be proved by any other legal evidence, as well as by the result of the sale under the levy.
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In this chapter (40 sections)
- 844-N · Primary assessing area board of assessment review
- 845 · Appeals; to Superior Court
- 846 · -- hearing
- 847 · -- Commissioner's hearing and report
- 848 · -- Trial
- 848-A · Assessment ratio evidence
- 849 · -- judgment and execution
- 850 · Assessment of costs
- 891 · Collection of delinquent county taxes
- 891-A · School subsidies withheld from delinquent municipalities
- 892 · Interest on delinquent state taxes
- 892-A · Interest on delinquent county taxes
- 893 · Tax collector liable to inhabitants
- 894 · Delinquent tax collectors; fine
- 895 · Warrant form; for completion of collection by treasurer
- 896 · Personal property distrained; sold as on execution
- 897 · Real estate levied on; sold as on execution
- 898 · Tax collector to account when taken on execution
- 899 · Municipalities may choose another tax collector
- 900 · Payments to former tax collector in dispute; procedure
- 901 · Remedy of owners of property taken for default of others
- 902 · Amendments permitted in actions to collect taxes
- 903 · Defendant estopped to deny title; exceptions
- 904 · Treasurer's receipt as evidence of redemption
- 905 · Municipalities may set off moneys due against taxes
- 906 · Application of payments to unpaid taxes
- 941 · Civil action with special attachments; procedure
- 942 · Tax lien certificate; procedure
- 942-A · Aggregate tax lien certificate for time-share units; procedure
- 943 · Tax lien mortgage; redemption; discharge; foreclosure
- 943-A · Application for abatement
- 943-B · Credit reporting; payment during redemption period
- 943-C · Sale of foreclosed properties
- 944 · Foreclosure for equitable relief, procedure
- 945 · Foreclosure in action for equitable relief; alternative…
- 946 · Action for equitable relief after period of redemption; procedure
- 946-A · Tax-acquired property and the restriction of title action
- 946-B · Tax-acquired property and the restriction of title action
- 946-C · Abandoned tax-acquired property
- 947 · Presumption of validity